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Mediated Racism: Orientalism, Birtherism and the Muslim Community Center
Anti-Obama conspiracy theories have gone viral in right-wing peer groups and within right-wing media outlets. The opposition to Obama is reaching crisis proportions. Just one third of Americans can …
Brazilian Election: What Does South American Giant Want in Post-Lula Era?
In a scene from my first book, “Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S.” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006), I discuss how Brazil became an ally of Venezuela during …
How Democrats Can Avoid the Shrapnel in November
To say that the American people are angry is an understatement. The political brain of Americans today reflects a volatile mixture of fear and fury, and when you mix …
Can the Democrats’ Ground Game Overcome GOP Fervor?
On the same weekend that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin addressed thousands of followers on the mall in Washington, DC, with a religiously cloaked Tea Party message to "restore …
Ten Candidates File Suit as “Massive Improprieties, Tampering” Seen in Shelby County, Tennessee, Election
While barreling westward across the Great Plains yesterday, I received an urgent text message from Bev Harris of the non-partisan election integrity watchdog organization BlackBoxVoting.org. She and Susan Pynchon, …
Cannibalism or Disinfectant? Missing the Plot in Arizona
Sunlight is a great disinfectant, but it’s cloudy and raining over the Arizona election desert. In the few hours since truthout ran my article on transparency and hacking problems …
Are Arizona’s Political Leaders Deliberately Blocking Electronic Voting Machine Transparency?
Why did Arizona's two main gubernatorial candidates, Gov. Jan Brewer, former secretary of state/head of elections, who contracted for highly criticized and easily-hacked Diebold and Sequoia ballot scanning systems, …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Politics of “No“
Washington — In an election, a solid “no” usually beats an uneasy “yes, but.” That's the heart of the problem Democrats and President Obama face this fall.
Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital
Why Long Commutes Are Bad for the American Body and Mind Suburban sprawl has long been criticized by urban scholars and intellectuals as damaging to the American …
Petraeus Indicates He’ll Delay Afghanistan Drawdown Deadline
New Delhi — With the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this weekend, what does the road ahead in Afghanistan look like? The tally – now …